WayPonDEVyouyeetoo X1 X86 Single Board Computer - A 64bit Windows 10/11/Linux Mini PC with in-tel Celeron N5105, Support Optional WiFi&BT, M.2 2280 NVMe or SATA SSD(Pre-Sale) (16GB RAM+0GB Storage)

The poor fan screaming for its life to cool the N5105 but out of the box, it's loaded of I/O and supported with alot of features.I have the 16GB RAM 256emmc version.Pros:- It runs Windows 10/11 very smoothly.- CPU and RAM can be OC'd in BIOS- BIOS is feature ritch- m.2 m-key for SSD or eGPU- supports WiFi 7 / Bluetooth modules- has a SATA port (you can add SATA SSD along with m.2 if you'd like to like me)For the fun of it:I installed the ATLauncher to play modded Minecraft (I got 60fps 6 chunk render on Fancy with the iGPU)Used an M.2 to X16 adapter and hooked up a 2080Ti. 3DMarked the board with Firestrike and Time Spy just because 😂Steam installed and streamed games from my main rig effortlessly over WiFiCPU is a definite bottleneck for sure.. but it WILL do things and that's what matters. Especially for the money, I'm perfectly happy. Maybe they'll make a Ryzen based SBC priced similarly? Would be cool to see. Highly recommend this thing!!

This is a specialty gadget designed for people who need an x86 processor, but who also want the flexible size and I/O options of a device like the Raspberry Pi. Uniquely for an x86 PC, it offers three serial ports plus I2C, SPI and GPIO headers. There's also onboard NFC (needing an external antenna) and two M.2 ports, one each for storage and Wi-Fi (also requiring an external antenna).If you just got excited by the inclusion of I2C, SPI and GPIO in that description, this board is for you. It's a really great hybrid of an entry level basic x86 chip that's good enough to run Windows with direct hardware access, and it could be a huge jumpstart to a project where you're trying to prototype an x86 embedded system or where you want to use familiar development tools with just a little bit of direct hardware access. They've done a ton of thoughtful planning with breakouts to headers for stuff like PoE expansion, too.On the other hand, if all of that sounds like Greek to you, this probably isn't the right fit for your project. There are other x86 SBCs out there that are a bit more turnkey, or a mini PC is often not much larger or costlier for a fully packaged solution. This is really a board for tinkering, and it's excellent for that.I'd recommend poking around the YouYeeToo wiki for this product and taking a look at all the possibilities - they've got good code samples for the onboard hardware, like the NFC reader, and plenty of other useful knowledge that can help you decide if this is right for you.

Very amateur review coming from a long time RPi user.I've messed around with a bunch of RPis to do little retrogame boxes and pi holes and OpenNas things. I had to look at some tutorials on how to use it, since there are no instructions in the box and the included QR code takes you to the forum, so you'll have to be resourceful in an old-school way. There is a wiki dot youyeetoo though that has the tutorial though.There are a bunch of in-depth reviews already online, so I will put my personal bullet points for my purchase.- I got the 8GB ram version without the eMMC since I had an extra NVME drive, a TeamGroup TM8PS7512G0C101- It doesn't have it's own wifi card either, but I also have an extra Intel AX210 M.2 WiFi/BT card. But there are no antenna to connect to the tiny holes. But I can't find any case for this so it just sits open air anyways. If it's an issue I'll get one of those antenna kits.- I kind of wish it came with little feet. I had some extra brass standoffs I added to each corner.- I should have gotten the one with the eMMC since at least there would be a much easier starting point.- No USB C, and power is a barrel plug AC adapter, so not super versatile.- There are ribbon cable hinges that kind of hang over the edge, and I'm afraid I might break one off by accident.- Installing Windows from the Wiki ran relatively smooth. My only hangup was that the keyboard wasn't working when it began reboot after the windows install, I just had to reboot it to get it to continue with the setup.- It runs pretty quick for a Celeron N5105.- with the antennaless WiFi Card, It detetected and install the drivers all good, but without the antennas, it wouldn't detect my wifi with the router about 8 feet away, but it detected my wifi if I turn the unit on it's side, but the connection is really bad. Definitely needs an antenna.- The windows 11 is a little sus with the custom install, but I tried a virus scan and it all came out all good.- I tried with my own windows 11 install and it installs excellently, but I'm missing drivers, but I'm finding them around the wiki and web.All-in-all it runs really nicely. and is really great for another board to tinker with. If you can get a good price the 8GB is a perfect middle ground.

Not recommended

I have this little guy setup running windows 11 and Steam to be able to remote play games on a TV that is further away from my main PC. I found that setting up this unit did require a little more tinkering and knowhow than some other mini-PCs that I've used in the past. I'd argue this is really more of a hobby project, to tinker and learn about the mini-PC and how it works. It worked well in my case, and I haven't had too many issues with my specific use case - the game streaming has worked pretty well! Overall, if you're just looking for a mini-pc, there are ones that may be more affordable and more turn-key. But, if you are looking to learn and dig into mini-pcs as a hobby, this would be a great one to start with!

Ive got some mixed feelings on this dev board. I thought it could be really cool to have the power of an x86 CPU on a dev board not much bigger than a Raspberry Pi.The problem though... it's excruciatingly difficult to get this to boot anything Linux. The included Windows install is useless for me, and of the distros I tried (opensuse, endeavourous, debian) none of them seemed very happy with this dev board. That seems very strange to me as x86 is a rather standardized platform...I'm not entirely sure what is going on different with this dev board that makes it not work like a mini-PC... but it strongly limits its usefulness to me.